My husband bought a scone at a Starbucks in Manhattan today, and it was 25 cents more, something he pointed out. The young person behind the counter said: "Inflation. But wait a couple of months.Trump is going to bring all the prices down." This person was 100% serious. - ThreadSky

msignorile.bsky.social • 103 days ago

My husband bought a scone at a Starbucks in Manhattan today, and it was 25 cents more, something he pointed out. The young person behind the counter said: "Inflation. But wait a couple of months.Trump is going to bring all the prices down."

This person was 100% serious.

Comments

donrumgayjr.bsky.social•102 days ago

Just wait until they start to lose their healthcare and food stamps and get their social security cut….

donrumgayjr.bsky.social•102 days ago

Already hitting the “Find Out” portion

broakbluffs.bsky.social•102 days ago

unfortunately, his supporters are in the cult so much that they'll believe whatever he tells them, even if prices go up. He'll somehow convince them that everything is great and he's the best president since Washington was running the airports during the revolution.

vivigurl62.bsky.social•103 days ago

dafoley.bsky.social•102 days ago

notyourpunchingbag.bsky.social•102 days ago

So disappointed in these young people. They’ll find out soon enough what trump really is.

jubilado251.bsky.social•101 days ago

Please ask her again in a year and let us know what she said.

laurascalzo.bsky.social•102 days ago

Here’s the thing. Zero pity when the penny drops.

thundercat73.bsky.social•102 days ago

WTH!

kathleenmchugh.bsky.social•102 days ago

Wait till the employee finds out about where coffee beans come from.

merlin888.bsky.social•102 days ago

Mark the date. Minions are dilutional.

ceindeed.bsky.social•103 days ago

I would have LOVED to hear the Professor’s reply !

tonezak.bsky.social•102 days ago

I would’ve left immediately. Perhaps ask them if they expected their wages to go up also?

christinepthoma.bsky.social•103 days ago

They really believe this is true. It feels like living with aliens.

kevincaffrey.bsky.social•102 days ago

My wife heard similar a few months ago in a grocery store. Delusional.

politicalamericans.bsky.social•103 days ago

https://politicalamericans.com/trump-voters-excited-to-receive-bonus-checks-from-china-tariffs/

michaelfehr.bsky.social•103 days ago

I expect retailers to raise prices in anticipation of tariffs, like they used the pandemic as their excuse. Welcome to the Trump grift economy.

simmagolda.bsky.social•102 days ago

My brother, same thing, believing the lies. Like a bad sci fi movie.

minoly.bsky.social•103 days ago

That is what is so sad about our society today. People don’t know that they don’t know and they blindly believe in lies.

electric528.bsky.social•103 days ago

Oh, the price of eggs will be a penny a piece and gas will be under $1 by 3pm January 20th. 🙄

#sarcasm

bcats99.bsky.social•102 days ago

Wow! The ignorance of America is on full display. Fascism depends on the uneducated and non-curious electorate.

flabbytabby.bsky.social•102 days ago

This is what lying does to people. High ignorance, low information, voters.

caligreg.bsky.social•103 days ago

Starbucks — who has never lowered prices — will suddenly do it thanks to 45? Bwwwwaaaa!

maria-merkd.bsky.social•102 days ago

Lol... So naive

sharbri.bsky.social•103 days ago

Make a note to go back there for a scone in February/March.

seannyp.bsky.social•102 days ago

This feels like an important statistic to share now: 54% of adults in America read below a 6th grade reading level.

jubilado251.bsky.social•101 days ago

That jumped out at me too. Yikes.

lflorepolitics.bsky.social•102 days ago

Probably one of the same ones that doesn’t want Obamacare but wants the ACA🤦‍♀️

horologio.bsky.social•102 days ago

That scone was probably made in a food factory using undocumented labor. So that scone will become scarce and overpriced when there is nobody to make it.
This is all between the time undocumented people are rounded up and arrested and then turned into slaves.

420aliensports.bsky.social•102 days ago

I only blame the morons that believe this. We have told them and explained it to them. They chose to believe delusion now when shit hits the fan they deserve what they get. I will save my empathy for people who cared about others and Democracy.

thosearentolives.bsky.social•102 days ago

It’s wild how many economists have emerged in the last four months. Reminds me of 2020, when everyone I knew who barely graduated HS was suddenly a public health expert. (They’re also constitutional scholars after every mass shooting too. So many hidden talents!)

ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social•103 days ago

Ag prices deflate in depressions...

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/farm-product-prices-redistribution-and-early-great-depression-us

finley82.bsky.social•102 days ago

I cant even come up with a witty reply. The stupidity and lack of critical thinking is lost on the 30% that drank his koolaid.

kultarr.bsky.social•102 days ago

There is a word for a centralized economy. Communism.

pdxalejandro.bsky.social•102 days ago

Ignorance is bliss. In the world of scones and economics apparently.

maraleia.bsky.social•102 days ago

The stupidity of the American populace is astounding Mike.

alextheis.bsky.social•103 days ago

This is the stupidest timeline.

robynbutler.bsky.social•102 days ago

😩 😩😩 I just can’t with these people

kismetregarder.bsky.social•103 days ago

I am very much in “Wait & See” mode. Then I will go into “I Fucking Told You So” mode when they DON’T go down.

msignorile.bsky.social•102 days ago

Yes, the person stupidly believes this but I also blame this on corporate media and right-wing media that influences all media ecosystems, all of which allowed Trump to claim that and/or promoted it as something he would do.

stephentracey.bsky.social•102 days ago

Don’t ever leave out the influencers or Podcasters when trying to understand why a number of people bought the BS.

rodskiluv.bsky.social•102 days ago

Is this the Starbucks in worldwide plaza?

storm994.bsky.social•102 days ago

So true, but f Starbucks, bake your own scones.

iacoguy.bsky.social•102 days ago

I've watched the grocery prices go up for the last few months, so I imagine they can cut them back to their previous, already too high, prices, and he can claim a victory

adamgilson.bsky.social•102 days ago

So when it doesn't happen, because it won't, does Trump pay a political price? Or will people finally be accustomed to the new levels enough that they THINK everything is better?